Unnamed Negro Servant of Bland

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1693
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Unnamed Negro Servant of Bland
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Unnamed Negro Servant of Bland
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In The Sound and the Fury this man seems more a product of Mrs. Bland's imagination than a real person. One of the stories she tells about her son Gerald focuses on the loyalty of "his nigger," who pleads to be allowed to accompany his "marster" to Harvard (107).